fastCutVid

Find the moment.
Make the cut.

Trim, arrange and export. A native video cutter for you and your AI tools.

Get fastCutVid Make your first cut

macOS / Windows / Linux

fastCutVid mint and violet play-and-cut app icon
LESS FRICTION.MORE FLOW.

Play. Split. Keep moving.

24 seconds in the real macOS app.

Footage: Big Buck Bunny © 2008 Blender Foundation / www.bigbuckbunny.org · CC BY 3.0. Excerpt shown in an edited, silent app recording.

Your next cut starts here.

v0.1.0 is ready. Download your platform’s package, then install FFmpeg.

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Windows

x86-64
Portable executable package

Download v0.1.0 ↗

0.1.0: silent preview; audio in export

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Linux

x86-64 · glibc 2.35+
Graphical desktop required for GUI

Download v0.1.0 ↗

0.1.0: silent preview; audio in export

One prerequisite: install FFmpeg and FFprobe separately. Both must be on your PATH for media analysis and export. No Rust needed for packaged builds.

Installation, step by step

Prefer to build from source?

Install Rust, Git and FFmpeg, plus your platform’s build dependencies. Then run:

git clone https://github.com/modecir/fast-cutvid.git
cd fast-cutvid
cargo run --release --locked

Confirm ffmpeg -version and ffprobe -version work in your terminal. See the operator guide for platform setup and troubleshooting.

macOS package setup

Choose macos-arm64 for Apple silicon or macos-x86_64 for Intel. Extract the archive and move fastCutVid.app to Applications. With Homebrew installed:

brew install ffmpeg

Early builds are ad-hoc signed and not notarized. After trying to open a trusted official download, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway if offered.

If the app cannot find FFmpeg when launched from Finder, start it from Terminal:

FASTCUT_FFMPEG="$(brew --prefix)/bin/ffmpeg" \
FASTCUT_FFPROBE="$(brew --prefix)/bin/ffprobe" \
/Applications/fastCutVid.app/Contents/MacOS/fast-cutvid
Windows package setup

Extract the Windows ZIP to a writable folder and keep its support files. Install a Windows build from the FFmpeg download options. Add the folder containing ffmpeg.exe and ffprobe.exe to PATH, then restart the app.

Run fast-cutvid.exe. Early builds are unsigned and may trigger a Windows reputation prompt. Alternatively, set explicit paths in PowerShell:

$env:FASTCUT_FFMPEG = "C:\Tools\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe"
$env:FASTCUT_FFPROBE = "C:\Tools\ffmpeg\bin\ffprobe.exe"
.\fast-cutvid.exe
Linux package setup

Extract the Linux tarball and keep its support files. On Ubuntu 22.04, install runtime dependencies:

sudo apt install ffmpeg libgtk-3-0 libxkbcommon0 libx11-xcb1 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-xfixes0 libwayland-client0 libegl1 libgl1 libvulkan1
./fast-cutvid

Package names vary by distribution. The binary needs glibc 2.35 or newer. Headless validation and rendering do not open a window.

Verify a packaged download

Get the archive and its matching .sha256 file from the official release. In the same folder, substitute the actual filename:

# macOS
shasum -a 256 -c ARCHIVE.tar.gz.sha256
# Linux
sha256sum -c ARCHIVE.tar.gz.sha256
# Windows PowerShell — compare with the checksum file
(Get-FileHash .\ARCHIVE.zip -Algorithm SHA256).Hash

Your first cut, in four steps.

  1. Bring in your footage

    Drop in a video. Double-click it in Media to add it to the timeline.

  2. Find your in and out

    Press Space to play. Drag a clip’s edges to trim.

  3. Make the cut yours

    Press S to split. Delete unwanted parts. Use Option/Alt + ← or → to reorder.

  4. Save it. Share it.

    Save your JSON project or choose Export video for an MP4. Use a new output path.

Save as you go. There is no undo/redo or autosave yet. Projects reference your videos instead of bundling them, so keep source media in place.